“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” ~ Alice Walker

We see beauty in trees in all their forms and all stages of life. What about us? What about when our backs bend? Our skin sags? Our hair thins? What about things? The worn quilt? The chipped tea cup that had been your great grandmother's? 

Today's Touchstone is about beauty, a certain perspective of beauty. In Japanese aesthetics it's called wabi sabi beauty. 

Pronounced "Wah-Bee Sah-Bee," it has to do with the beauty of simple living, and with appreciating the imperfections, the aging, and the wearing of things.

Let's try seeing from this perspective today. Notice imperfections and signs of aging, fading, decaying, transforming.

We can be in awe of the beauty in us too.

With reverence,
Charlene

THE NINTH GIFT IS REVERENCE. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation. -  from The Twelve Gifts of Birth